Time, aside from being a stand out track on Bowie’s best album (not the best track, the title track has that honour), has been in my thoughts this week. I’ve had 2 requests for time management training this week and my answer to this request is always ‘why?’. You may remember I wrote a while… Read More Time, he’s waiting in the wings
Apart from being a great tune by Johnny Nash I thought I’d to post up a few of the questions that have been making me think this week. Each question is probably worth a blog piece in its own right, but I’ll set each up here and see what answers I get back from the online community.… Read More There are more questions than answers…
I’ve been asked to write this post for a while now as I’ve mentioned this idea a few times in the past and people have wanted to know more about it. Quite simply, I believe that traditional training is like Mexican food. It contains the same core ingredients that are added in differing quantities and… Read More Training is like Mexican Food
Implicit This blog was meant to be about the ownership of learning activity, but as I was writing it, I thought it might be more fun to recount some ideas about participant motivation to attend training. There seems to be an implicit expectation that people ‘own their own development’. I’ve seen the phrase in policies, heard it… Read More Who are you?
I was reading through this article on the Science Daily site and thought about it in the context of L&D. Most importantly, it highlighted an issue that I’ve seen in L&D for some time; that being how the fear of creativity can impinge on trainers’ capacity to ‘sell’ a new idea. It’s a question I… Read More Train to sustain?
Lost and Desperate 